SARAJEVO, 25 March (Hina) - A group of 41 persons from Bosnia and Herzegovina who during the war in Bosnia took refuge in Germany, were deported this afternoon to Sarajevo by a special plane from Munich, rented by the Bavarian
government.
SARAJEVO, 25 March (Hina) - A group of 41 persons from Bosnia and
Herzegovina who during the war in Bosnia took refuge in Germany, were
deported this afternoon to Sarajevo by a special plane from Munich, rented
by the Bavarian government. #L#
The group also includes 12 persons who committed various criminal acts
in Germany. Their repatriation was supervised by German police officers and
upon their arrival at Sarajevo airport, they were taken over by the
Federation police.
According to the returnees, they all had received letters informing
them that they are to return to their country by a certain date, but since
they failed to do so, they were arrested by the police and sent back.
Some of the returnees will be accommodated at their relatives' and
friends' places in Sarajevo, while the other have been sent to a reception
centre where they will wait for the final solution on their new permanent
place of residence.
It is still unclear where the returnees will be accommodated as some
of them, who are of Bosniac nationality, had earlier lived on the territory
now in the Bosnian Serb entity. Today's deportation is the beginning of a
German government program of return of refugees, based on an agreement
signed between the governments of Germany and Bosnia and Herzegovina at the
end of last year.
According to that agreement, the first phase, which is to end by the
end of June this year, includes the return of 80,000 people, mainly
criminals, singles and married couples without children and refugees who are
users of the state social care.
The second phase includes the repatriation of other refugees..
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